QUOTE OF THE DAY 43: BE COMFORTABLE BEING UNCOMFORTABLE

"The most successful project managers have perfected the skill of being comfortable being uncomfortable."

QUOTE OF THE DAY 42: PLANNING AND EXECUTION

"Planning without Execution is useless, Execution without Planning is fatal."

QUOTE OF THE DAY 41: OPTIMISM, YOUR NAME IS PROJECT MANAGER

"If you're 6 months late on a milestone due next week but really believe you can make it, you're a project manager."

QUOTE OF THE DAY 40: THINKING UNDER PRESSURE

"People under pressure do not think faster."

QUOTE OF THE DAY 39: THINGS WILL GO WRONG

“If there is a 50% chance of something going wrong then 9 times out of 10 it will, so plan accordingly.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY 38: OVERTIME ALLOWANCE IS A MYTH

“Overtime allowance is a figment of the naive project manager's imagination.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY 37: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

“No project has ever finished on time, within budget, as per scope. We’re still waiting for the 1st one.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY 36: NEVER UNDERESTIMATE

“Never underestimate the ability of senior management to buy a bad idea and fail to buy a good idea.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY 36: SAVE TIME

“A little risk management saves a lot of fan cleaning.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY 35: HOURS DON’T COUNT

"It's not the hours that count, it's what you do in those hours."

QUOTE OF THE DAY 34: ATTACK THE RISKS

"If you don't attack the risks, the risks will attack you."

QUOTE OF THE DAY 033: LOOSE YOUR HEAD

"If you can keep your head while all around you are losing theirs, you haven't understood the plan."

QUOTE OF THE DAY 32: PROJECT DATA INTERPRETATION

“If you can interpret project status data in several different ways, only the most painful interpretation will be correct.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY 31: NOT WRITTEN? NOT SAID!

From a Project Management standpoint, “a verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.” In short, “What has NOT been written, has NOT been said.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY 30: NO NO WITHOUT YES

Never allow a person to tell you NO who doesn't have the power to say YES. - Eleanor Roosevelt

QUOTE OF THE DAY 29: PROJECT MANAGERS vs. TEA BAGS

Project Managers are like tea bags. The more you put them in hot water, the stronger they get.

QUOTE OF THE DAY 28: LUCKY PROJECT MANAGERS

Agreed, there are no good project managers - only lucky ones, but, the more you plan the luckier you get.

QUOTE OF THE DAY 27: IMPERFECT BETTER THAN NOTHING

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly." - Robert Schuller

QUOTE OF THE DAY 26: PROJECT IS LIKE A TRUMPET

"Life (read Project) is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in (strategize & plan), you won't get anything out (desired results & outputs)."

QUOTE OF THE DAY 25: ADJUST ACTIONS, NOT GOALS

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." - Confucius